JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, JR.  He is engaged in newspaper work in Boston and is the author of a volume of poems, The Heart of the World.

MARGETSON, GEORGE REGINALD.  Was born at St. Kitts, British West Indies, in 1877.  He was educated at the Moravian school in his district.  He came to the United States in 1897.  Mr. Margetson has found it necessary to work hard to support a large family and his poems have been written in his spare moments.  He is the author of two volumes of verses, Songs of Life and The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society and, in addition, a large number of uncollected poems.  Mr. Margetson lives in Boston.

McCLELLAN, GEORGE MARION.  Born at Belfast, Tenn., 1860.  Graduate of Fisk University and Hartford Theological Seminary, teacher, principal and author.  He is the author of The Path of Dreams.

McKAY, CLAUDE.  Born in Jamaica, West Indies, 1889.  Such education as he gained in boyhood he received from his brother.  He served for a while as a member of the Kingston Constabulary.  In 1912 he came to the United States.  For two years he was a student of agriculture at the Kansas State College.  Since leaving school Mr. McKay has turned his hand to any kind of work to earn a living.  He has worked in hotels and on the Pullman cars.  He is to-day associate editor of The Liberator.  He is the author of two volumes of poems, Songs of Jamaica and Spring in New Hampshire, the former published in Jamaica and the latter in London.

MOORE; WILLIAM H. A. Was born in New York City and received his education in the public schools and at the City College.  He also did some special work at Columbia University.  He has had a long career as a newspaper man, working on both white and colored publications.  He now lives in Chicago.  He is the author of Dusk Songs, a volume of poems.

NELSON, ALICE MOORE (DUNBAR).  Born at New Orleans, La., 1875.  She was educated in the schools of New Orleans and has taken special courses at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania.  Author of Violets and Other Tales, The Goodness of St. Rocque, Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, and The Dunbar Speaker.  She was married to Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1898.  She has been a teacher and is well known on the lecture platform and as an editor.

ROGERS, ALEX.  Born at Nashville, Tenn., 1876.  Educated in the public schools of that city.  For many years a writer of words for popular songs.  He wrote many of the songs for the musical comedies in which Williams and Walker appeared.  He is the author of The Jonah Man, Nobody and other songs made popular by Mr. Bert Williams.

SHACKELFORD, THEODORE HENRY.  Author of Mammy’s Cracklin’ Bread and Other Poems, and My Country and Other Poems.

SPENCER, ANNE.  Born in Bramwell, W. Va., 1882.  Educated at the Virginia Seminary, Lynchburg, Va.  She lives at Lynchburg and takes great pride and pleasure in her garden.